Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (962 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1944869522 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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For his poetry, which has appeared in The Paris Review, The Nation, and Agni, he is a recipient of the Discovery Prize awarded by the 92nd Street Y and The Nation. He lives in Brooklyn, where he is at work on a novel. . JOEL WHITNEY's writing has appeared in The New York Time
One CIA created literary magazines that promoted American and European writers and cultural freedom, while the other toppled governments, using assassination and censorship as political tools. Defenders of the "cultural" CIA argue that it should have been lauded for boosting interest in the arts and freedom of thought, but the two CIAs had the same undercover goals, and shared many of the same methods: deception, subterfuge and intimidation.Finks demonstrates how the good-versus-bad CIA is a false divide, and that the cultural Cold Warriors again and again used anti-Communism as a lever to spy relentlessly on leftists, and indeed writers of all political inclinations, and thereby pushed U.S. Finks is a tale of two CIAs, and how they blurred the line between propaganda and literature. What if the CIA, in its Cold War infancy, reached as far as one literary magazineand went on to shape American literature as we know it? In Finks, Joel Whitney details the CIA's intimate ties to the arts, and delves into the murky history o
Finks is a timely moral reckoning." David Talbot, founder of Salon and author of The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret Government "An illuminating read and a cautionary tale about the potential costspolitical and artisticof accommodating power."Ben Wizner, ACLU Director of Speech, Privacy and Technology Project. Riveting." Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Listen to this book, because it talks in a very clear way about what has been silenced." John Berger, author of Ways of Seeing and winner of the Man Booker Prize "